Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems

Name: Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems
Author: Robert Keith Sawyer, 1960-

presented by Robert Keith Sawyer, 1960- (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005, originally published 2005), 288 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Sociologists have long believed that psychology alone can't explain what happens when people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and economists believe that we can explain much about social life with an accurate theory of how individuals make choices and act on them. R. Keith Sawyer argues, however, that societies are complex dynamical systems, and that the best way to resolve these debates is by developing the concept of emergence, paying attention to multiple levels of analysis--individuals, interactions, and groups--with a dynamic focus on how social group phenomena emerge from communication processes among individual members.
Field of Interest: Social Work
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Content Type: Book
Duration: 0 sec
Format: Text
Original Publication Date: 2005
Page Count: 288
Publication Year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place Published / Released: Cambridge, England
Subject: Social Work, Social Sciences, Psychology & Counseling, History of Social Work, Sociology, Social groups, Psychology, Macro
Clinician: Robert Keith Sawyer, 1960-